Fairytale Of New York

Kirsty MacColl

It was Christmas Eve babe


In the drunk tank


An old man said to me,


won't see another one


And then he sang a song


The Rare Old Mountain Dew


And I turned my face away


And dreamed about you





Got on a lucky one


Came in eighteen to one


I've got a feeling


This year's for me and you


So happy Christmas


I love you baby


I can see a better time


When all our dreams come true





They've got cars


Big as bars


They've got rivers of gold


But the wind goes


Right through you


It's no place for the old





When you first took my hand


on a cold Christmas Eve


You promised me


Broadway was waiting for me





You were handsome


You were pretty


Queen Of New York City


When the band finished playing


They howled out for more





Sinatra was swinging,


All the drunks they were singing


We kissed on the corner


Then danced through the night





The Boys of the NYPD choir


were singing 'Galway Bay'


And the bells were ringing


Out for Christmas day





You're a bum


You're a punk


You're an old slut on junk


Lying there almost dead on a drip


In that bed





You scum bag


You maggot


You cheap lousy faggot


Happy Christmas you arse


I pray God


It's our last





I could have been someone


So could anyone


You took my dreams


From me when I first found you


I kept them with me babe


I put them with my own


Can't make it all alone


I've built my dreams around you